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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Night Hammer on November 20, 2005, 01:52:02 am

Title: Good Download manager
Post by: Night Hammer on November 20, 2005, 01:52:02 am

Anyone got any good ones? personal favorites? anything like that, gracias

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Scuddie on November 20, 2005, 02:57:04 am

It's always been a bad habit of mine to turn people away from download managers, even for 56kers.  If it is queue you are looking for, I suppose Getright or GoZilla will do OK...  I guess...  Just be sure to disable multi-part downloading.  It does more harm than good.

Oh, I just checked Tucows, and it seems Download Accelerator Plus is the highest ranking download manager according to users.  This is sad.  Very sad indeed :(.

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Falcon on November 20, 2005, 06:52:20 am

I use Free Download Manager, never gives me any problems...

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Gortef on November 20, 2005, 08:07:17 am

One more to add to the list.

LeechGet, that's what I use. Quite powerfull and nice.

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: pyro-manic on November 20, 2005, 08:20:41 am

Quote from: Scuddie on November 20, 2005, 02:57:04 am

It's always been a bad habit of mine to turn people away from download managers, even for 56kers. If it is queue you are looking for, I suppose Getright or GoZilla will do OK... I guess... Just be sure to disable multi-part downloading. It does more harm than good.

Any particular reason why?

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Prophet on November 20, 2005, 01:05:06 pm

Personally, I don't use download managers. Opera can resume and restart downloads and has a handy "transfers" window. What else would you need?

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Kamikaze on November 20, 2005, 08:54:19 pm

Wget (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget).

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Windrunner on November 21, 2005, 05:11:16 am

Quote from: pyro-manic on November 20, 2005, 08:20:41 am

Quote from: Scuddie on November 20, 2005, 02:57:04 am

It's always been a bad habit of mine to turn people away from download managers, even for 56kers. If it is queue you are looking for, I suppose Getright or GoZilla will do OK... I guess... Just be sure to disable multi-part downloading. It does more harm than good.

Any particular reason why?

i sceond for leechget. it boosts my adsl download speed from 55k to 78k per second

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Setekh on November 22, 2005, 07:04:55 am

Be careful of download accelerators, though.

http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive7.pl?read=192679

Title: Re: Good Download manager
Post by: Sandwich on November 23, 2005, 04:55:25 pm

GetRight is awesome - tremendously configurable, reliable, and the author is responsive to suggestions. However, it's shareware - though well worth the money.